{"id":31100,"date":"2013-01-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=3c39efca55018c9d187e7f39db66d3a3"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:55:12","slug":"marl-bed-flats-172013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/marl-bed-flats-172013\/","title":{"rendered":"Marl Bed Flats, 1\/7\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took my point and shoot with me to Marl Bed Flats this morning, but the lighting was pretty poor until I began to head back to my car. The above photo was from the trail back to the parking lot. It was a little contrasty, but since Canon’s S100 lets you shoot RAW images, I was able to get something out of the scene. The S100 also has an HDR mode, but it only produces JPEG images. I plan on testing that out more in the future. I’ve tried it a few times but haven’t reached any conclusions; so far I think I’ll be better served taking three RAW images and doing my HDR work on the computer.<\/p>\n

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Cooper’s Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cooper’s Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marl Bed Flats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wildlife at Marl Bed Flats was pretty fun. I found a Northern Harrier far off in the distance while out on the flats and heard a Sora, but things were most interesting right at the parking lot when I returned to my car. There was a lot of activity–Tufted Titmice, Carolina Wrens and Northern Cardinals were all calling. As I looked through the trees I found Pine Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Black-and-white Warblers, a Yellow-throated Warbler, an Orange-crowned Warbler, two Blue-headed Vireos and a White-eyed Vireo, and a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. After after having fun observing them for a little while I went to get in my car and then I noticed a Cooper’s Hawk flying overhead. I don’t know if the hawk was attracted to the commotion or the cause of it, but it was very nice to see.<\/p>\n

I was also reminded this morning that feral hogs roam freely about this place. This one was rather close, but paid me no attention.<\/p>\n

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Feral Hog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took my point and shoot with me to Marl Bed Flats this morning, but the lighting was pretty poor until I began to head back to my car. The above photo was from the trail back to the parking lot. It was a little contrasty, but since Canon’s S100 lets you shoot RAW images, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2145753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[557,2857,2053,2465],"class_list":["post-31100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-coopers-hawk","tag-feral-hog","tag-northern-harrier","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}